My family basically hails from KOONI GURAM (Wana) but settled in Lucky Marvat. I am married presently in Karachi, a city of more than 16 million helpless and directionless souls. I have spent most of my life away from home in loneliness, while in various boarding schools. I have done BE Electronics, MBA HR (SZABIST Khi) and presently working in MNC.
Thank you and best regards.
FM Shah Marvat
Karachi
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THE PAKHTUN, THE TALIBAN AND IGNORANT INSIDERS PATHANS
Pakistanis just like most of the former British colonies and Muslim country, is a society composed of deprived/exploited people ruled and governed by few elite coordinating in form of pressure groups. These are privileged in all walks of life whether Politics, Business, Bureaucracy, Uniform name any institution. These pressure groups backed by US/UK have hijacked the whole country for their own interest. These elite were ruling once Capitalist's and Business Minded GORA were here and now also when we are free. It is excellent convergence of interest of our ruling elite and the greatest exploiter of the world known history i.e. Capitalist West. The capitalist system uses two tools for 3rd world countries i.e. first deprivation and then Exploitation. Most importantly our Society has been deprived and exploited in name of Islam continuously, both before and after Indo Pak Partition. When we are ill we go to Doctor, when we want to construct home we go to architecture when we have to deal with law we go to lawyer, why because they all are specialist and they have devoted most of their lives for their specialty. But when we deal with Islam/ Quran then all of us think that we are the experts and Mullah the one who has devoted his whole life for Islam/Quran is desperate, terrorist and backward.
I am not fan neither my ideals are Mullah Umer, Osma bin Laden, Qazi Hussain Ahmed or Mulana Fazal-Ur-Rehman. My point is if we do not like Mullah then some one respectable and mindful (if there is any among us, which I doubt) should devote his life for Quran/Islam and he should define Islam for the society. Meaning thereby that just like Doctor, Lawyers, Engineers, Businessmen and all other professionals which our society needs exactly in the same manner our society also need someone who should be specialist in Islam/Quran. It's very simple if we do not have any better alternative than Mullah then we have to accept whatever Islam he tells. At this stage please do not consider that we should make it a state responsibility. If you want to screw some thing royally, hand it over to Pakistan state just like health, Police, Land & Revenue, Law & order etc etc. For past 150 years, we've waited for "somebody from our western style Schools, Colleges, Universities, SO-CALLED SEAT OF LEARNING" to do a miracle. But alas it is DISGUSTING TOTAL FAILURE for more than 100 years in all fields and it will be failure for next 1000 years.
Very few among our ruling elite dare to speak the truth. Fewer dare to listen to the truth. Much fewer who accept truth and much smaller in number who act on truth? Lies and deceptions of our ruling elite since colonial era (1800 AD) have converted our people to reactive mob. As reactive mob, we do not hate fire but the ONE who shout FIRE. We are not afraid of failure rather afraid only to accept ourselves as failure even if we are failing. We as a nation are failed in all fields. Starting from education, medicine, engineering, banking, politics, and science. You name any field and we are total failure. Our ruling elite inspite of having iron grip over all national resources have always fallacies for their total failures. These fabricated excuses and fallacies of total failure of ruling elite (of which I consider myself) varies from Education, Sectarianism, India, Taliban and Al-Qaeda etc. One is really disgusted and disappointed by all such western backed experts (including many inside ignorant Pakhtuns) when they give their juicy commentaries on Quran, Islam, Sharia and Pakhtunwali based western social science concept, which are most of the time irrelevant and inapplicable in our societies. We do not have any systematic or analytical power, because we all are groomed through skewed wisdom/vision therefore for us Islam, Quran, Sunnah and Sharia becomes irrelevant in all our problems. Just like West, our ruling elite and their experts will never attack or refute Quran/Sunnah, however they will attack all those who in one way or other way represent Quran and Sunnah. They will try to make Islam, Quran, Sunnah and Sharia a fuss and controversy.
Normally it is considered that Shariah Movement popped out after Zia Marshal law Regime. However Shariah Movement was active in Tribal area especially Swat before Soviet Afghan War. US War for terror acted as catalyst for alienating masses from the Westernized puppet ruling elite of Muslim countries and aggravating political grievances already stoked by Western backed/imposed policies/values/cultures. The religious fervor among the masses is swelling support for Shariah to play a greater role in political life. It is not local phenomena in Swat/Tribal rather global phenomena. That in turn has increased political repression, because many inept Muslim ruling elite see Islamic/Shariah political movements as a threat to their own rule. Swat was a small independent state which opted for Pakistan, at the time of partition, on guarantee of independent state from Mr. Jinnah. The state was governed by Shariah law which had a fine blend of Pathan culture. Swat state laws and governance was a natural, efficient and effective law which suited local tradition and Pathan culture. Justice was quick, simple and cheap. Shariah movement dates back to Bhutto regime in seventies when Swat state was annexed to Pakistan contrary to Jinnah commitment to Wal-e-Swat. Prior to that, Swat state had very efficient and effective local administration, Qazi courts and Police System under patronage of Wali-e-Swat based on local tradition and mostly Shariah laws. Earlier Qazi Courts, local administration and police was replaced by existing corrupt Pakistani Police, inefficient/ineffective civil bureaucracy (DCs/ACs) and normal court system, which are colonial legacies and skewed state structure designed for colonial brute regimes. Shariah movement was hijacked/exploited by Zia-ul-Haq (greatest hypocrite of our history)on his false promises of Shariah based Government in order to legitimize his eleven year draconian rule for US interest in the region. Zia did nothing for Islam, except making Jihad, Sharia and Islam controversial. Just like Sharia Movement many other uprising for change (namely labor and student movement) against colonial state structure and establishment were first made controversial and when possible dealt by iron hand and crushed by the agents of status-qou and colonial remnants i.e. Pakistan ruling establishment.
Some of my enlighten fellows might find comparing TABLEEGHI JAMAAT as NGO with Southwest Airlines as out of context. If I am wrong, please correct me by identifying any NGO in the whole world which every year mobilize more than 3 Million people in different parts of world for its annual gathering and having presence across the globe in every city. TABLEEGHI JAMAAT (only 30/40 years old phenomenon) as NGO and Southwest as Airlines are organizations wherein members/employees are productive and efficient. TABLEEGHI JAMAAT and Southwest Airlines both are similar with each other from culture point of view however very different from rest of NGOs and Airlines. Instead of the blue sport coats worn by other airlines, a uniform of short pants and polo shirts is a summer standard for Southwest Airlines employees. The pilots and flight attendants might sing or tell jokes to passengers, but they are serious about customer service and efficient operations. TABLEEGHI successes do not depend on Western schools. They do not use modern rocket technology, social science concept, IT, technology, or HRM but still they are best in networking. So far no western educated Muslim (those including know all type clowns from LUMS/IBA/Oxford/Harvard graduates) have not given us any such high performance NGO, organization, product or brand. The glory is not serving in Shell, BP, BC, Microsoft, Google, Coke, Unilever but making such giants. The similar working style of Southwest Airlines and TABLEEGHI JAMAAT implies a relaxed environment, their levity indicates a certain degree of openness, and shared responsibilities of the front line and management solidify the importance of—above all—getting the job done. It is no wonder that Southwest Airlines have been the most consistently profitable airline over the past decade. At the same time TABLEEGHI JAMAAT is wonderful growing NGO over past 3 decades.
I am not preaching to join TABLEEGHI JAMAAT or judging them as absolute RIGHT/WRONG but trying to highlight the essence of building giants in TABLEEGHI JAMAAT. Just imagine a Muslim MNC or Muslim business or public institution which has similar productive culture and exponential growth like TABLEEGHI JAMAAT. AT SAME TIME I AM ALSO NOT TRYING UNDERMINING MY SHIITE BROTHER'S FAITH. My Shiite brothers can identify/explain their own version of glories and wonders to us from our own soil. What I am trying to prove that wonders/miracles will be done only with REJECTION (INKAR). Western Style Schools, Colleges, Universities will always invent law of necessities. The GUTS for rejection will not come from will only come through Quran and Islam. Any version of Islam (i.e. Shiaism, Wahabism, and Sunnism etc) may work for this rejection (INKAR).
Another example to which some of my fellows may object is comparison of US Marines with Taliban in Afghanistan. Dr Lee in his Book "Performance Conversation" has mentioned US Marines Corps as world's finest military organization. According to Author Dr Lee it has been in battle for well over two centuries and its reputation has become synonymous with success. Marine Corps is unique in its success, weapons and technology. Despite the fact that US Marines weapons, tactics, and resources are much more/advanced than Taliban, the Corps has a very low performance in Afghanistan if compared with Taliban. Taliban unrelenting pursuit of success is evident in all resistance to US in past eight years without any resources. I am not saying that Taliban are absolute RIGHT and US Marine wrong or vice versa. What I want to highlight is uniqueness in the Taliban culture, their morale and commitment to hard work..
The anti Sharia Establishment spin machine in Pakistan is locked and loaded to promote the notion that Taliban are "flip flopper." For past 200 years it is their principal line of attack for status quo and against any resistance, change, movement for masses in Pakistan and whole region. It can not concluded about Taliban exactly? Who are Taliban and from where they popped out? Whether they represent Islam or Sharia? However history will record that Taliban one critically important contribution to our country -- and to the entire region and the world, that they have shaken the local/international establishment and agents of status-qou from its core. Taliban uprising against US and then puppet regimes in Islamabad have provided the masses unquestionable proof of the bankruptcy of our ruling elite ideology. It is a dangerous preposition, however it is from here that we steer our destiny for a qualitatively different world for our future generations. Taliban have emerged in fits and haunting the ruling elite establishment like a volcano, their pressures gradually built over years and have erupted with enormous power against all anti Islam and anti Sharia Forces of privilege, inequality and selfishness in Pakistan. I have got serious reservations about Taliban and TABLEEGH overall philosophy but at the same I have to acknowledge following the reason for their success as an entity and organization if compared with our rest of colonial institutions like Army, Police, Judiciary, Education,
1. Their leaders have ensured that their culture supports individual performance.
2. Work/Processes have been designed to keep their members engaged.
3. Their superiors are partner with members in a way that allows them to do their best work.
4. Each system within the Taliban and TABLEEGH are aligned and coordinated to achieve optimal performance.
I pray for all of your legitimate dreams to come true. Always think positive and try to spend valuable life not only for you but for others also.
Only Urs
FM Shah
People will forget what you said…
People will forget what you did…
But people will never forget how you made them feel…
"It's not my purpose to shock you - but the simplest way I can summarize is to say that there are in the world, humans that peep, that gossip and that discuss freely even the greatest taboos you could find around. Moreover their ability to do these things has what made them damned in the eyes of many who are acclaimed as chosen ones - the range of issues they can handle is coexistent with the nature of their ability to speak openly without any boundaries, limits or constraints."
Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi
"I've tried to create a culture of caring for people in the totality of their lives, not just at work. There's no magic formula. It's like building a giant mosaic–it takes thousands of little pieces….The intangibles are more important than the tangibles. Someone can go out and buy airplanes from Boeing and ticket counters, but they can't buy our culture, our esprit de corps."
Herb Kelleher CEO Southwest Wall Street
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ANTI-THESIS TO FARHAT (THE NEWS)
THE PAKHTUN, THE TALIBAN AND IGNORANT OUTSIDERS
It has been a Fashion for corrupt ruling westernized intelligencia of the various Muslim societies (MACAULAY'S CHILDREN/BROWN GORAS) to label poor Taliban/Mullah (who demand implementation of Shariah by hook or crook) as a source of all ills in our societies in order to cover their ineptness, failures, misdeeds and corruption spanning over decades. While our past/present ruling westernized intelligencia is force of status quo and external state imposed on our societies through violence, deprivation and exploitations. This ruling lot represent statues-quo for their unquestioned control over all resources/authority of the various Muslim societies/states. Talibans/Mullahs are mostly from poor masses and represent a reactive force and agent of change through Shariah against status quo, violence, deprivation and exploitation.
It is always difficult for me to write an essay to counter someone else essay. However in following paragraphs, I have tried my best to analyze and look differently on the views of our learned writer Farht Taj (The News).
Uphill security challenges to Pakistan and whole region due to US WAR FOR TERROR are basic motivation for this critical piece of study. I would like to highlight that my family basically hails from KOONI GURAM (Wana/South Waziristan) but now days settled in Lucky Marvat. I am married presently residing in Karachi, a city of more than 18 million directionless and helpless souls. I have done BE Electronics and MBA HR and presently working in MNC.
This may soon force the Pakhtun to be open to help from any where in order to survive. Thus tens of people of Swat told me they pray after every namaz for the US drones to fall on the headquarters of the Swat Taliban.
Being Pathan, it is hard to believe for me to think of any one among Pathan or Muslim, who pray for US drone attack on his soil. Pathan might sell his mother but he can't think like this. Without any question Army initially under Musharaf and now under PPP/ANP have committed a lot atrocities and excesses for US blood dollars, however it can't make any Pathan love US drone attack on its soil. Bush war mongers also told him same before Afghanistan attack and Iraq invasion.
Pathan are culturally, historically and geographically a homogeneous group of people.
Pathan is a mix race; it is not homogeneous group of people. Orientals and European scholars mostly try to portray Pathan homogeneity. The Pashto from Kabul to Peshawar till DI Khan is totally different. Their traditions, ways of living are different than each other. Add to it those who feel proud to consider themselves as Niazi Pathan and Sindhi Pathans. Once on Dinner in Karachi, at Budu Khan Restaurant, I happened to listen the old/white beard owner of the Budu Khan Chain, that though he does not speak Pashtoo, but he consider himself to be proud Pathan. Pathan is not pure rather mix race from various other central Asian tribes and after Islam they emerge in the history. Pakhtun wali an true/new application of Islamic tents was a best code for diversity management and peaceful co-existence.
The Taliban generate their revenue by relentlessly kidnapping affluent Pakhtun for ransom.
Mujahideen (Taliban predecessors) were in the region for last thirty years. It has been never ever known that Mujahideen have been involved any kidnapping or immoral activities. Maliks/Khan who were on payroll of the Political agents, intelligence agencies have been involved in narcotics trade, rental killing, fugitive/criminal covers and kidnapping even before 9/11. PPP MNA from DI Khan, Deputy speaker Faisal Karim Kundi uncle Amanullah Khan Kundi (ex-MNA) remained a fugitive for several years in South Waziristan as his International warrants were issued by Interpol due to his involvement in narcotics trade in Germany.
Various criminal elements in tribal area have been mobilized for vested criminal interests mainly drug trade on backing of local totalitarian ruling elite, various local/foreign Intelligence agencies and imperialist neo-cons. Their objectives are loot/plunder masses for their own kitty, while at the same time they defame/malign and make controversial the cause/name of Taliban who are resisting imperialist neo-cons in Afghanistan. They use various tools of terror, violence and disinformation. These elements have nothing to do with Islam or Taliban and they are simply using the name of Taliban. US and India trained them in Khurasan and Hirat provinces of Afghanistan. These trained elements were injected into tribal areas of Pakistan in order to spread chaos and crisis. Chaos and crisis is one of the reason due to which President Musharraf justified his clinging to Power while now PPP consider this war as Pakistan war. These foreign elements in the garb of Taliban are involved in the acts of terrorism in different cities of Pakistan like Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi. Their violence and chaos justifies excessive use of fire power by state agencies for various incidents like Red mosque, Nov-03 and May-12. Their acts of violence also hijack various peace initiates, therefore whenever there will be a peace talks, either US will directly attack or some suicide bomber will hit inside Pakistan on the name of Taliban or Pakistani Ambassador issue will pop out.
The Taliban have no respect for the law of Pakistan.
Pakistan laws are made to be broken by all those who make these laws. Moreover most of Pakistan state rules/laws/ traditions/norms are decades old and date back to colonial era therefore mostly irrelevant and inapplicable. It includes Police, Justice, Land, Revenue, Political, Army Act etc. Army Act enact today in Islamic Republic of Pakistan under democratic leadership is more less same as made by East India Company in 1847. This army act is intact in almost all former British colonies (prostitute states) like India, Bangla Desh, Nigeria, Sri Lanka. This inhumane army act has never been applied in UK.
They Taliban have imposed a savage social order, completely different from the Pakhtun social order.
Colonials were the one, who imposed a savage social order, completely different from the Pakhtun social order. Same order was carried by petty Babus left over by colonials for last fifty years for various omission and commission. First victim of this order was silk route. The disruption of silk route made whole region economically, politically and socially unstable. The imperial and colonial power turned Pakhtun area into never-ending war zone. During last century for more than seventy years, it has remained active war zone. Pakhtun were mostly traders and nomads like Pawandihs. This area was self sustaining and independent. However disruption of silk route and dependence on the hostile forces has led the region to continuous tension. The disintegration and deterioration of the social structures of the Pakhtuns belt is not recent phenomena after Taliban rather it is continuous since colonial era. Taliban are the reactive forces and reactive effects of that order. Silk route has been replaced with Karachi and Bombay ports connected through British Railways, which not only drain our resources but also our brain. Moreover from such metropolis all western models and thoughts are imported and imposed on masses by the 0.01 % ruling elite of whole Pakistan. The one man show of the Qissa Khawani Bazars were better than Shakspear Drama of the same era. Pawindahs and Pathans were mostly nomads and traders of the silk route and they were the custodians of silk route. Bannu, Peshawar was the heart of silk heart. For centuries Silk route has remained business, economic, political, academic, culture and leadership life line of the whole region including India, Pakistan, Bangla Desh, Sri Lanka. Whole region is in constant flux due to disruption of the silk route. India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, two of them nuclear states, will likely decide the future of whole region if they could reinvent the silk route and turned around the cycle of business, economics, trade, academic away from British era metropolis like Karachi and Bambay to silk route. Since 47 Pakistan and India had maintained British Raaj colonial view of rugged, under-developed Tribal Areas, and Afghanistan as their "backyard and buffer space," and an important strategic asset or liability in the event of war. Silk route is umbilical cord for the whole region.
People of FATA had always seen the most oppressive and cruel face of the state of Pakistan
It is applicable in whole region and greater extent to tribal area. Indo-Pak region (Pakistan, India and Afghanistan), as whole, is ruled by corruption and poverty fifty-six years after independence in the twenty first century. Our rulers and leaders are almost never free from the pressures of west and transfer/consumption of resources right from the start has been anything but fair. What accounts for this? What is so inherently wrong in our system or psyche that does not allow our system to deliver good for poor? The failure of state to deliver good for poor is an old question but well worth revisiting. No doubt FATA is in pathetic and terrible state for past fifty due to Khans, Maliks, Political Agents and last of all US WAR FOR TERROR. As whole it is dilemma of the whole Indopak region where quality of life ranges from poor to poorest. In our occupied Lands, there are 0.001 % people (fat & well connected to the US/West) in Politics, Business, Judiciary, Uniform, Bureaucracy, TV, Press, and Newspaper, who counts and who are in control. They are STATE and they are supposed to heard because it is their fight for their share along with their US/Western Masters. Rest 99.99 % are non-state actors and intolerable masses/spams. So therefore they are not counted anywhere.
A dialogue with the Taliban can only be successful if it stands on mutually respected ground between the two parties. In this case the common ground can be the law of Pakistan, the Code of Pakhtunwali and Islam. The Taliban respect neither of the three.
Call Taliban and their partisans what you will. Call them barbarians and cutthroats. But at least give them credit for being resolute fighters. American military might has not cowed them. The Pakistan army has not made them run. Taliban may be the most barbarous set of people on the entire planet but they have self-respect. Somewhere during the course of our journey we lost self-respect due to addiction to our love with West and US blood dollars. Taliban have spirit and doughtiness and believe in their cause which is more than can be said of the forces they are fighting against – the United States, its increasingly befuddled NATO allies and the redoubtable military of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Losses or reverses suffered by Pakistan for US WAR FOR TERROR can't be a matter of pride for anyone. But when will we learn the difference between right and wrong? There are just wars and mercenaries wars but we seem to have a talent for marching every time, for global, colonial and imperial powers since 1857. The difference is that whereas in the past we scripted our own disasters, this time our American friends are doing the job for us by selling/depicting their war as our war. The Americans have made a hash of Iraq. They are getting stuck, well and truly, in Afghanistan. And whereas we should be thinking for ourselves, our ruling elite is holding on to American coattails, being sucked into a conflict for which most of masses have neither stomach nor motivation. This is not to disparage the masses but only to point out the obvious circumstance that the will to fight does not come when you act at the behest of others.
The Taliban have destroyed down, or forced the closure of, petty businesses like barber shops and small kiosks selling music DVDs and CDs. This is part of the Taliban's agenda to impose on the Pakhtun a narrow social order that stifles every kind of free choice and entertainments in the name of Islam.
CNBC and Sama TV head offices are situated in Techno city plaza on II Chundrigar road. Just in front of these head offices, across the road, various open air road stalls sell porno graphic CDs/DVDs to all and sundry without any hindrance. Geo TV, Hum TV, Jang Press and Capital Police Chief offices on II Chudrigar road are almost fifteen minutes away from these CD/DVD stalls on walk. Forget about Rainbow center in Sadder heart of Karachi, almost all CD/DVD shops in every corner of Pakistan carry every type of pornographic and blue print CD/DVD. Even minor kids have easy access to these porno graphic CDs/DVDs by paying mere Rs 20 to Rs 25. It is absolutely wrong to bomb anyone property, however I wish all those who make fuss over these CD/DVD kiosks blasts, watch any such CD/DVD with their families. Then they will also feel like bombing these DVD/CD kiosks. Similarly Miss Farhat Taj should try to find these CD/DVDs in Karkhanoo Market in Peshawar. I always wonder why these experts become so deaf and blind to highlight such social evils while day and night they will depict Taliban as barbarians.
They are sick and tired of the Taliban. The Taliban have killed innocent people--men, women, children--they have destroyed the educational institutions in the area, devastated businesses and shattered the peace there. The Taliban even exhume and humiliate the dead bodies.
It is debatable issue. However whole world and whole Muslim Ummah particularly Pathans are sick and tired of the US, NATO and their puppets in respective countries. These international and local establishment mafias have killed innocent people--men, women, children--they have destroyed every thing, devastated businesses and shattered the peace of the whole region. War on terror quite often appears to be an enigma wrapped in a riddle. Efforts to understand war on terror and its consequences on whole region and globe, ranging from socio-economic, political fiber to security, prove this. The complex consequence of war on terror on societal mosaic and resultant state behavior of USA and regional actors like Pakistan, Afghanistan and India thereof often denotes more confusion than clarity. Terrorism is the over growth and extension of efforts of CIA for last fifty years. The Pakistan ruling elite policies over past six decades mostly revolve around their own and US interests instead of its people. To stop the slide into lawlessness, extremism, anarchy, chaos, poverty and hunger, the restoration of genuine pro-masses policy on war on terror is a matter of life and death for Pakistan. Perhaps one conclusion to be drawn is that Pakistan government and state must follow a certain minimum standard of political morality, democratic tolerance and pluralism and social justice if the scourge of terrorism is to be exorcised.
-Nations rise and fall and are history. Nations that rise again become
civilizations. My land is the oldest civilization. I have trekked the
summit of its highest mountains, sand dunes, its very high bogs and
marshes in sub zero temperatures.
Like my country I am lost between my ideals and the realities. My
country still craves for its identity. I too lie unrecognized to
myself. I am a POWINDA and diversity is my name.
-A Nameless, Helpless, Hopeless Poor Muslim and Pakistani trying to
save himself, Muslims and his countrymen by his emails from US WAR FOR
TERROR, US WWW III and US WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION.
It is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists will we be?
- Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the
silence of our friends".
- Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could
not hear the music."
- Angela Monet
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do."
- Voltaire
"The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values
or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized
violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do."
- Samuel P. Huntington (The Clash of Civilizations)
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